Ridley Scott Considers Shadow Diving

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An underwater exploration tale.

By Paul Davidson

Ridley Scott's next film could be an underwater exploration tale, reports Empire Online. The accomplished director, whose historical epic Kingdom of Heaven is currently playing in theaters, has tentatively agreed to head up Shadow Diving for Fox 2000.

Shadow Diving, originally a book by Robert Kurson, is the factual tale of two wreck divers who discovered a sunken German U-boat from the Second World War in deep waters off the coast of New Jersey. The duo put together an exploration team and spent the next seven years uncovering the story behind the submarine and its occupants.

Fox 2000 recently purchased the story from Kurson and hired William Broyles (Cast Away, Apollo 13) to adapt it for the screen.

Shadow Diving will reportedly require a lot of preparatory work, so it's not certain if Scott will move on that once his current directing project, A Good Year, is complete. Scott was also expected to shoot the historical war film Tripoli next year, but that project currently appears to be on hiatus.